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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

10,000 Birds

All the way through – and a brand-new volunteer had to pull it out! I was trying to give a Brown Pelican subcutaneous fluids with a 60 cc syringe and an 18 gauge needle by myself,” says Stephanie Whitbeck Kadletz. β€œI Needless to say the pelican jerked and the needle went straight through my thumb and stuck out the other side. β€œIt